Incorrect it is not the furthest, by quite large a margin as well. The photo seen here was by Cassini Space Probe and was taken from 1.4 Billion km away in 2013.
The real furthest image was taken of earth by Voyager 1 in 1990 from 6.0 Billion km away. That image is known as “Pale Blue Dot”
I miss the days of AIM when all we had to deal with were real human being predators and not AI slop bots pretending to be human beings pretending to be interesting to gather more data for their algorithms. 😪
Dude me too. I hadn’t heard that name in so long I forgot that part of my memory existed. All of a sudden the entirety of 7th grade flashed before my eyes.
Most likely somebody young’ish that found a cool image and didn’t do their due diligence in researching their claim. It is so common these days. Critical thinking skills just don’t exist anymore
And that image is significantly more impressive. Not only was it taken from over 4 times further away than this, it was done with significantly older tech.
Seeing those images is a bit of a humbling thing though. Really puts into perspective just how tiny our little planet is. Like, that tiny blue-ish pixel is all we have.
And I'd argue the unsettling part is not "wHat cOUld bE oUT thEre!!!!", but the isolation and frailty. Whatever could be out there that's "creepy", the distances are so incomprehensible that neither us nor our descendants will likely ever see any of it. It'd be much easier for us to fuck up and become extinct.
Yes. I’d did lots of detours taking photos of planets along the way but it really only takes 3 years to reach Saturn. Voyager 1 left the solar system over a decade ago (2012)
What I find interesting is how Sagan's message is basically the opposite of OP's. What if nothing else is out there? What if we, all of us on this mote of dust, are all we have?
Existential dread, maybe? The realization that there really is literally nowhere else out there to go but right here is uncomfortable for some people. The realization of how comically insignificant literally everything is against the grand scale of things is also uncomfortable for some. OP is probably experiencing one of these.
why are human's default assumption that evolution trends towards intelligent life? Dinosaurs lived for magnitudes of time longer than we've existed, and they never developed anything close to human cognition. We got lucky our ecological niche allowed for the evolution of intelligence.
personally, to me, it is so incredibly obvious to me that the answer to the fermi paradox is that life is common, human-level intellect is not.
I never said anything about that, just the thought of were not the only beings/carbon lifeforms/ brains and nerves inside a meat skeleton etc! Plenty of monsters on this planet as we spin
Knowing that something/one is out there and actively avoiding us least provides closure on the if, honestly if you were observing all of the actions of the organisms on this planet… would you want to stop for gas?
Very humbling. We have been on this planet for how many thousands of years (at least) and still can't seem to get along. *sigh*. Disappointing maybe, not creepy at all to me :|
But wasn't Voyager's 1990 "pale blue dot" further?
Oh don't get me wrong...I definitely understand that (I try not to think about it lol)! I always wondered if that drove part of the denialism that's followed humans for like ever...
I won't mention the possibility then that intelligent (sic) life on earth might have been wiped out before humans, and even before the dinos...or before that...
An interesting fact that few people know is that, due to the infinite nature of reality, you will always feel like you are in the middle of the scale, no matter how big or small you are. You will always perceive things much larger and things much smaller than you.
There is no evidence that supports the claim - "infinite nature of reality".
However, even in a finite universe there is significant scale difference between the very small and the very large. The following claim is still suspect though because you would need to see the likelihood of any one thing being in a particular part of the scale. It should also be noted that smaller things tend to make up larger things in our experience.
You have made more of a philosophical claim and dressed it up as a fact. Careful not to confuse philosophy with facts. They are very different things.
Also, in the scale of known sizes in the universe, from the observable universe itself down to the Planck length, humans are actually closer to the large end of the scale than the small end, by an order of magnitude of… I want to say 27?
So despite how fucking incomprehensibly large the observable universe may seem, we are closer to it in size than the smallest measurable thing possible. Crazy, right?
>There is no evidence that supports the claim - "infinite nature of reality".
Yes of course there is. There is no beginning and no end. No "biggest" and no "smallest" object. We might not have definite proof of this yet but we keep finding more evidence that this is true.
>It should also be noted that smaller things tend to make up larger things in our experience.
We do not know that there is no beginning or end. That is the shit you are just making up.
Based on the cosmic microwave background and multiple other sources of data point to some event about 13.8b years ago that we have no way to look further back in time.
Asserting no beginning or end requires evidence, not assertions or claims.
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the vastness of the observable universe and how matter is approximately 1/5 of space with an overwhelming majority being dark matter which we cannot perceive as three dimensional beings.
More insane is how little there actually is out there. All visible matter
In the universe amounts to about 5% of it. Given the actual size of the universe (which increases constantly), the age of the universe, and the amount of time it has taken for our solar system reach a point where one planet can support life and the amount of time it took for life to develop os single cell organisms and the amount of time it took evolution to allow for human civilization, to consider any other sentient life exists in any form and location we’d ever actually interact is a total waste of time.
I imagine we will likely never know. While we do have very hypothetical models of FTL travel there is a strong possibility we never leave our home solar system before our species goes extinct. Statistically two things can be assumed : 1. The number of stars with planets in habitable zones number at the very least in the billions, making it at least unlikely we are the sole life in the universe, sentient or otherwise. 2. We are a young species, who have only been transmitting focused electromagnetic "noise" since probably the 1950's. Early warning radars of that era were monstrous and could feasibly still be traveling through the immediate galactic area in such a way that it is inarguable to have been created by an intelligent species. There is no reason to believe that any of this has been detected by any species, space faring or not due to the limited duration of our ability to project past the ionosphere and space being incomprehensibley fucking huge.
TL;DR: the galaxy is a big place, the universe (from the corner of it we can see) is even bigger so it's highly unlikely we are alone and it's even more unlikely anything knows we are here.
I just checked and it's mostly nothing out there. As in, like, everything that we would normally call nothing is way more something than the actual amount of stuff in the universe compared to the emptiness of the universe. Is that some kind of paradox? The more you include everything in the universe the closer to nothing it gets.
I’ve never seen that photo before. It’s beautiful!
Does anyone know what’s causing the band of light along the bottom? Is it just glare from the sun? It almost looks like it’s light coming through something atmospheric, like a cloud of ice or dust.
Incorrect it is not the furthest, by quite large a margin as well. The photo seen here was by Cassini Space Probe and was taken from 1.4 Billion km away in 2013.
The real furthest image was taken of earth by Voyager 1 in 1990 from 6.0 Billion km away. That image is known as “Pale Blue Dot”

Yes. It is a quite a famous image as well, so I am quite curious as to how OP made this post without a simple google search?
Is this a bot account or something? The posts are rehashed titles of the same images and other random stuff?
Edit: switched grammar ‘infamous’ to ‘a famous’
Probably a bot :)
I miss the days of AIM when all we had to deal with were real human being predators and not AI slop bots pretending to be human beings pretending to be interesting to gather more data for their algorithms. 😪
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I jest. I'm with ya, full-on.
SmarterChild unlocked a core memory for me, holy shit. I thought the future was there.
Dude me too. I hadn’t heard that name in so long I forgot that part of my memory existed. All of a sudden the entirety of 7th grade flashed before my eyes.
Oh shit. </pwn3d>
I forgot about SmarterChild 🤯
;)
But SmarterChild didn't forget about you... oooooooo!...
ASL?
Most likely somebody young’ish that found a cool image and didn’t do their due diligence in researching their claim. It is so common these days. Critical thinking skills just don’t exist anymore
Just sad. Especially considering I’m in high school
It’s a famous image. Infamous means it’s known for something bad
"IN-famous is MORE than famous..."
(Three Amigos)
Account is a month old. Bot or karma farmer, I’d guess.
karmer farma 💯
Why is “Pale Blue Dot” infamous? I’ve never heard that.
Infamous?
Are you really curious to that? I mean this is reddit...
Was thinking the same thing
Engagement bait, and we all took it
And that image is significantly more impressive. Not only was it taken from over 4 times further away than this, it was done with significantly older tech.
Seeing those images is a bit of a humbling thing though. Really puts into perspective just how tiny our little planet is. Like, that tiny blue-ish pixel is all we have.
And I'd argue the unsettling part is not "wHat cOUld bE oUT thEre!!!!", but the isolation and frailty. Whatever could be out there that's "creepy", the distances are so incomprehensible that neither us nor our descendants will likely ever see any of it. It'd be much easier for us to fuck up and become extinct.
Well, we're on the right track for that last bit.
voyager left earth 1977 and was 13 years old at that time when the picture was taken. quit impressive though
Pretty impressed to find this is real though. It's not the pale blue dot but Saturn adds a certain vibe.
I’m gonna be unreasonably sad when the Voyager probes finally go silent
If it makes you feel any better it’s got at LEAST another decade
That does :)
It’s thrusters also still work:https://www.reddit.com/r/space/s/LZZa7mVqfl
Voyager was further away than Saturn in 1990?
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977
I understand and it only just recently left the solar system, so I’m asking if it was further away than Saturn after 13 years in space
Yes. I’d did lots of detours taking photos of planets along the way but it really only takes 3 years to reach Saturn. Voyager 1 left the solar system over a decade ago (2012)
Yeah - but click baity title shit won.
Annoying. At first I was rationing the post but now we’re here.
Since it hasn’t been linked yet. Also thanks for the reminder, it felt like OPs image was off but I couldn’t remember.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
https://preview.redd.it/ipxzul65lt5g1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ada16bb994c2138aa9528ca3daa5a45ae57ee43
This is the furthest photo ever taken with a quote by Carl Sagan
https://preview.redd.it/stjiotnqav5g1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdeb61569e0e9cf72740a51691b551950d19291b
Here's the full quote.
What I find interesting is how Sagan's message is basically the opposite of OP's. What if nothing else is out there? What if we, all of us on this mote of dust, are all we have?
The photo is a lot more effective without the crop.
https://preview.redd.it/irw6gr0c4u5g1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5728e1d96f59c93126d211e97d6027e5e7d02b5
Why is this creepy?
Existential dread
Because of spooky alien ghosts.
Existential dread, maybe? The realization that there really is literally nowhere else out there to go but right here is uncomfortable for some people. The realization of how comically insignificant literally everything is against the grand scale of things is also uncomfortable for some. OP is probably experiencing one of these.
Barely anything is creepy on here anymore.
Bot farm posts farming human engagement for their corporate overlords
There can only be two things… we are alone, or we are not…. Both frighten me, but def saving this into a screensaver!
We're definitely not
Agreed. Just given the mathematical size of the universe, the chance we’re alone must be 0%.
One of those shouldnt immediately frighten you. Why is Humanity's default assumption about extraterrestrial Species being monsters or hostile?
The unknown will always scare humans, it's just basic instinct.
why are human's default assumption that evolution trends towards intelligent life? Dinosaurs lived for magnitudes of time longer than we've existed, and they never developed anything close to human cognition. We got lucky our ecological niche allowed for the evolution of intelligence.
personally, to me, it is so incredibly obvious to me that the answer to the fermi paradox is that life is common, human-level intellect is not.
I never said anything about that, just the thought of were not the only beings/carbon lifeforms/ brains and nerves inside a meat skeleton etc! Plenty of monsters on this planet as we spin
Because of human nature and history.
What happened every time we land on someone else's unknown land? We either kill them or they kill us. Every single time.
So it isn't a stretch to think that other civilizations would be hostile. Almost everything in life that we know is hostile, after all.
If other life is so far away that it will never interact with us in any way... Is that different than being alone?
Knowing that something/one is out there and actively avoiding us least provides closure on the if, honestly if you were observing all of the actions of the organisms on this planet… would you want to stop for gas?
I can see my house from there
Yes, zoom in a few times in photoshop
Don't forget to say "Enhance" every time you do!
Very humbling. We have been on this planet for how many thousands of years (at least) and still can't seem to get along. *sigh*. Disappointing maybe, not creepy at all to me :|
But wasn't Voyager's 1990 "pale blue dot" further?
https://preview.redd.it/93qq3s273u5g1.jpeg?width=442&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b2868465b5ac6be796425a4b6b05cd8ee38ec37
It's existential dread or cosmic horror. Many people are scared of the sheer vastness of space.
Oh don't get me wrong...I definitely understand that (I try not to think about it lol)! I always wondered if that drove part of the denialism that's followed humans for like ever...
I would say it did. Look at how many people believe things like flat Earth. They'll believe lies because the truth frightens them.
I won't mention the possibility then that intelligent (sic) life on earth might have been wiped out before humans, and even before the dinos...or before that...
Also LOVE the username! Well done, you!
Thank you. :)
https://preview.redd.it/ks9mvxiq2u5g1.jpeg?width=3308&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60e87db0528728ad81beec479fbd3b107c4572b1
To be fair... It's insane what we already know is out there
And all of those spots of light have about over one billion stars in them. There has to be life SOMEWHERE else.
There clearly is.
I sound like a stuck record, but this is not creepy.
And we pay taxes and stress about owning a home etc. when we came with nothing and leave with nothing but the spirit we came with.
It's a beautiful photo, but it's not the photo taken of Earth from the furthest distance. It's also not creepy.
"We're", not "Were". As in "We are..."
Voyager took the furthest picture of earth. I forget what year and how far. But, it's the "pale blue dot" by Carl Sagan.
Unless this is a simulation and there’s basically nothing… just emptiness
Like a game where you can fly through the walls with a cheat code
IDCLIP
Is this the pale blue dot photo?
No, this is from Saturn iirc. Pale blue dot was out in Neptune's orbit.
So this photo is not the farthest image from earth then?
Correct
An interesting fact that few people know is that, due to the infinite nature of reality, you will always feel like you are in the middle of the scale, no matter how big or small you are. You will always perceive things much larger and things much smaller than you.
There is no evidence that supports the claim - "infinite nature of reality".
However, even in a finite universe there is significant scale difference between the very small and the very large. The following claim is still suspect though because you would need to see the likelihood of any one thing being in a particular part of the scale. It should also be noted that smaller things tend to make up larger things in our experience.
You have made more of a philosophical claim and dressed it up as a fact. Careful not to confuse philosophy with facts. They are very different things.
Also, in the scale of known sizes in the universe, from the observable universe itself down to the Planck length, humans are actually closer to the large end of the scale than the small end, by an order of magnitude of… I want to say 27?
So despite how fucking incomprehensibly large the observable universe may seem, we are closer to it in size than the smallest measurable thing possible. Crazy, right?
>There is no evidence that supports the claim - "infinite nature of reality".
Yes of course there is. There is no beginning and no end. No "biggest" and no "smallest" object. We might not have definite proof of this yet but we keep finding more evidence that this is true.
>It should also be noted that smaller things tend to make up larger things in our experience.
And how does that contradict what I said?
We do not know that there is no beginning or end. That is the shit you are just making up.
Based on the cosmic microwave background and multiple other sources of data point to some event about 13.8b years ago that we have no way to look further back in time.
Asserting no beginning or end requires evidence, not assertions or claims.
You have nothing but empty assertions
Biggest and smallest object have no bearing on the finite or infinite size of the universe, so methinks you have no clue how science works.
What’s so creepy about it though?
Crazy that you can see Earth from here, but I still have to strain to see your apostrophes.
Crazy that everyone just believes these photos are real.
A group photo of everyone
What is out there is beyond our level of understanding at this time. About the level of Lovecraft.
Especially when you consider we are in a backwater of the milkyway which is itself in a backwater of the universe
I finally got to be in the same photo with insert celebrity here.
So small and paying taxes out my ass to live there
Jim Carrey was right when he said: ,,We don't matter. That's the good news."
I wouldn't call this creepy. Humbling, yes.
“‘I’M SIGNIFICANT!’ screamed the dust speck.”
CGI
It's insane how bat shit crazy humans are. Literally the only known place we can survive and do nothing but destroy our planet and ourselves
Pats pockets....damn I forgot my air pods
What is the bright light coming from, lower left side of image
Damn, Earth is not only flat, but its also squared /s
Right, who's posting Carl Sagan's pale blue dot speech?
Everything! And nothing! All at the same time! The universe is a weird place..
We appear really small from that perspective. I'm huge on earth btw. Me!
Yet we too often see ourselves as significant and important. And, even dumber, that we can proceed to destroy our home planet and all will be fine.
Thats fake
you know whats more insane, what if there isnt anyone else out there? thats more terrifying than someone actually sharing this universe.
Xenomorphs
Just finishing the Black Forest, by Cixin Liu. Really makes you wonder. I want to believe.
And yet if that image had been taken through a high powered telescope it would look just like a much closer image of earth.
I hope there are space cows
Anything and everything is out there
I've never seen this picture in such poor quality before.
Sanity.
Bar the obvious that's not the actual photo, it really goes to show how small we are in the grand scale of the universe doesn't it
How is this creepy
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the vastness of the observable universe and how matter is approximately 1/5 of space with an overwhelming majority being dark matter which we cannot perceive as three dimensional beings.
Ugh, wish they'd told me they were taking a photo, I would have fixed my hair.
It is not the furthest image. Also...how is it creepy?
Creepy ? No.
A reminder that we are insignificant and utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things ? Yes.
op is a bot
Wrong it’s the pale blue dot image.
When did AI bots start hating apostrophes?
Sorry! My eyes were closed. Take it again!
It makes me question my existence
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.
Why are we shining a lot though? Who kept the lights on all day?
More insane is how little there actually is out there. All visible matter In the universe amounts to about 5% of it. Given the actual size of the universe (which increases constantly), the age of the universe, and the amount of time it has taken for our solar system reach a point where one planet can support life and the amount of time it took for life to develop os single cell organisms and the amount of time it took evolution to allow for human civilization, to consider any other sentient life exists in any form and location we’d ever actually interact is a total waste of time.
That is beautiful and absolutely terrifying at the exact same time
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/horsehead-nebula-euclid-hubble-and-webb-images/
One of the coolest pictures I can tag myself in.
Fucking bots
"What else could be out there?" Literally everything.
The Epstein files are out there, somewhere.
Universal Bank sees trillion dollars of debt.
I imagine we will likely never know. While we do have very hypothetical models of FTL travel there is a strong possibility we never leave our home solar system before our species goes extinct. Statistically two things can be assumed : 1. The number of stars with planets in habitable zones number at the very least in the billions, making it at least unlikely we are the sole life in the universe, sentient or otherwise. 2. We are a young species, who have only been transmitting focused electromagnetic "noise" since probably the 1950's. Early warning radars of that era were monstrous and could feasibly still be traveling through the immediate galactic area in such a way that it is inarguable to have been created by an intelligent species. There is no reason to believe that any of this has been detected by any species, space faring or not due to the limited duration of our ability to project past the ionosphere and space being incomprehensibley fucking huge.
TL;DR: the galaxy is a big place, the universe (from the corner of it we can see) is even bigger so it's highly unlikely we are alone and it's even more unlikely anything knows we are here.
Okay so get me out please
What's more creepy is the dark matter or aether between all of that. The bleeding edge earth science has no models for any of it..
I just checked and it's mostly nothing out there. As in, like, everything that we would normally call nothing is way more something than the actual amount of stuff in the universe compared to the emptiness of the universe. Is that some kind of paradox? The more you include everything in the universe the closer to nothing it gets.
does anyone have this as a phone wallpaper? this is gorgeous
Four pixels.
I mean, it’s a cool photo, but NOWHERE close to the furthest ever taken from earth
We’re*
When one of you get there then send a pic 🤦♂️
1) Wrong
2) It's awe-inspiring, not creepy
https://preview.redd.it/d7jokgnbyz5g1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=727d35f6bca2a69182a023fe4c0927e2ab3f8169
Thought for a second it was a zoomed in picture of this logo here lol
Is it that hard to just Google something before posting factually wrong shit on here?
OP never heard of the Pale blue dot...
This picture is oddly terrifying.
You are wrong and need to correct your post. Not the furthest image. Pale Blue Dot was much further away.
Did you recently turn 12 or is it chronic?
Now doogle, repeat after me .... Small.... Far away.... Small ... Far away
Hard to believe that tiny speck holds everything we know. Views like this make the universe feel huge.
Ikr
Beautiful picture
I thought this was an image of a broken monitor.
I’ve never seen that photo before. It’s beautiful!
Does anyone know what’s causing the band of light along the bottom? Is it just glare from the sun? It almost looks like it’s light coming through something atmospheric, like a cloud of ice or dust.
Nope. Google Pale Blue Dot.
Dammit my eyes were closed
We’re*
I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.
According to Carl Sagan, we’d be foolish to think otherwise.
And none of us alive will will see what's out there in our lifetime. Adds to the existential dread.
Soon you will find out what's been out there the whole time...
Looks like a whole lot of nothing but a dot.
That is incorrect.
Things with distance can certainly appear smaller
C G I
This is Ellen Ripley. Last survivor of the Nostromo. Signing off
At first glance it looks like a picture of a broken screen.
https://preview.redd.it/lg8potpojg6g1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4665274b05d01a7ee76a88d7cdb44a3f3a2aff7
I feel like this applies.
My Amazon next day delivery?
Yes think about it.. that tiny little dot and if you zoom in you can see me licking a girls toe. Science is awesome..
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Math.
There could be an entire planet made out of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Salted caramel..... Maybe. Mint choc chip? I highly doubt that.
There is nothing intelligent. Sorry brother